Human Resource Management
If you believe people are an organisation’s greatest asset, this human resource management degree will give you the skills and insight to launch your career.
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Key Course Details
If you’re passionate about people and how they contribute to the success of organisations, this is the degree for you. Combining theory with practical experience through simulations and an optional placement year, you’ll emerge as a confident Human Resources professional.
Designed For
Whether you’re leaving school or college or have experience of working in a HR role , this course will help you become a rounded HR professional. What students have in common is a passion for people and a recognition of their value as the key drivers of organisational productivity.
Accredited by
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Career paths
- Human resources management
- Training and development manager
- Reward specialist
- Diversity and inclusion specialist
Skills taught
- Communication and negotiation skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem solving
- Data analysis and decision making
- Adaptability and resilience
Course Highlights
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Module Overview
Learn about the rhetoric and realities of people management in this Human Resources degree. From theory to practice, you’ll apply what you learn in the lecture theatre to real-world projects, plus the opportunity for placements and internships to cement your skills and build your CV.
Year three
HRM 4.0 and the future of work
Developments in Employee Relations
Employee Engagement: Rhetoric's and Realities
Strategic Management
HRM Critical Enquiry Project
As an HR professional, you need to be able to relate to people in the context of how they work within an organisation. So your first year is shared with business management students, giving you a strong grounding in the world of business, how organisations run and the pressures upon them.
People, Work and Society
Learn sociology of work in the contemporary economy, the links between people’s experiences and perceptions of work and the impact that it has on them and the wider society.
Economics, Law, and the Business Environment
Develop your understanding of the business environment. Grasp the economic and legal factors and business frameworks used for environmental analysis.
Becoming a Professional; Critical Enquiry
Develop your critical thinking, ability to find and interrogate relevant information and how to present your research interpretation in meaningful ways.
Principles of Supply Chain Management
Your broad introduction to the principles and practice of logistics, procurement operations and supply chain management.
Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
Get to understand a range of core marketing and consumer behaviour concepts, enabling you to carry out key marketing functions and processes.
Becoming a Professional; Enterprise Project
Develop your inner entrepreneur with this critical introduction to entrepreneurial mindsets – identified as a key attribute for the future-proof graduate.
In Year 2 you will learn the fundamentals of Human Resources and take on a 10-week professional placement i to practise some of the theory you’ve learned so far. Our strong employer connections will support you to find this. Lectures and workshops will help develop your skills as an HR professional.
HRM in the Workplace; Policy, Practice & Law
Get to know the fundamental legal imperatives which inform HR policy and practice, setting the scene for the legal dimension of future modules.
Resource and Talent Development
Learn the tools, techniques and practices plus strategic approaches used by organisations to meet current and anticipated skills needs.
Business Analytics for Management and Financial Decision-Making
Develop skills in analytics, financial interpretation, and numeracy for business in readiness for your HR career.
HRM context and challenges
Examine HR’s role in strategy formation and implementation in both national and international contexts.
Developing HR Professional Practice
Hone your understanding of the knowledge, skills and behaviours required by Human Resources professionals while reflecting on your own development needs.
Organisational Behaviour and Work
Using real life examples, case studies and international research, navigate the built-in ambiguity of human resources from a managerial and critical perspective.
Refine your capability as a critical HR expert in your final year. You’ll consider the future of work, strategic management, employee engagement and employee relations. Then showcase your skills on a realistic brief in a critical enquiry project.
HRM 4.0 and the future of work
Build on your HR knowledge by examining disruptive technologies' impacts, demographic issues, and employment patterns on the evolving profession.
Developments in Employee Relations
Develop a critical understanding and appreciation of the nature and context of employment relations in contemporary settings.
Employee Engagement: Rhetoric's and Realities
Explore what’s meant by employee engagement; understand the relationship between this and other HR concepts covered in other modules.
Strategic Management
Analyse information and environmental factors in the context of the HR Function to enhance your informed decision-making abilities.
HRM Critical Enquiry Project
Showcase your ability to investigate and diagnose a live or complex business issue from an HRM perspective during a self-directed, supervised research project.
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Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
The curriculum is plotted against the CIPD’s profession map, developing you to be a well-rounded HR professional, including qualifying as an associate of the CIPD if you pass the relevant modules. A placement in year two plus a year in industry option ensure you have real world experience alongside theoretical knowledge.
We’re future-focused, grounded in established HR theory, whilst considering the potential challenges facing people in the workplace. You’ll learn through a mixture of lectures, workshops, group and individual work, plus simulations and role plays to apply the processes and theories you study.
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Teaching staff
With a mixture of former HR professionals from industry and academics, you’ll learn from a broad team with lots of different expertise and strong networks. We have specialists in performance management, talent, industrial relations and strategic HRM.
We’re well-connected to CIPD Wales and regularly secure prestigious guest lecturers from industry to help keep the curriculum current and expose students to a wide variety of issues and contexts, along with networking opportunities.
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Placements
You’ll have the opportunity to do a 10-week professional placement in your second year to give you chance to apply what you’ve been learning. There’s also the option for a full year in industry between years two and three.
We have a strong network which extends into the public and private sectors and a wide range of industries. Our close connections with CIPD Wales mean we can access lots of opportunities for students to put their skills to the test in the real world, acquiring valuable experience to add to your CV ahead of graduation.
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Facilities
You’ll learn on our modern Treforest campus in the heart of the South Wales Valleys. The Treforest campus is also home to The South Wales Business Clinic; a scheme that encourages our students to take part in a ‘consultancy firm’ and offer advice to our business clients. Our business clinic is partnered with more than 100 employers ready and waiting to work with students like you.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
UCAS Points: 96 (or above)
Typical qualification requirements:
- A Level: CCC
- Welsh BACC: Pass the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate Diploma with Grade C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and CC at A Level (this is equivalent to 96 UCAS tariff points).
- BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma Merit Merit Merit (this is equivalent to 96 UCAS tariff points).
- Access to HE: Pass the Access to HE Diploma and obtain a minimum of 96 UCAS tariff points.
- T Level: Pass (C and above)
Additional Requirements:
The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
*Obligatory.
Students have the opportunity to attend various branch and regional CIPD events as well as occasional seminars and conferences. It is recommended that all students fully engage with the CIPD and their events to maximise their advantages of their professional membership.
Cost: £0 - £100
Students are encouraged to undertake a period of work placement during their second year of study. Students undertaking a placement may incur costs associated with travel and expected workplace attire and this will vary according to the placement.
Cost: £0 - £300
Students are offered the opportunity to complete an internship during their second year of study. Students undertaking an internship may incur costs associated with travel and expected workplace attire and this will vary according to the placement.
Cost: £0 - £200
Costs may be incurred while completing sandwich year if chosen . Costs associated with travel and expected workplace attire will vary according to the placement. Year 3 only.
Cost: £0 - £100
Variable costs may be incurred while completing a "study abroad option"
Cost: £0 - £1000
Text books are provided via the USW library but students may wish to purchase their own private copies.
Cost: £300 - £400
Should students choose to sit exams abroad (in their home country for example) there will be a £50 admin fee and a cost of £20 per exam. Students are also responsible for any additional charges made by an overseas exam venue.
Cost: £50 - £300
University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
How to apply
All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS. You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time.)
Advanced entry
If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.
International admissions
International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.
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